Hello all, Texlive seems to be broken in Tumbleweed. Here is what I an getting when running "/usr/share/texmf/texconfig/update force": ,---- | [-]Updating TeX hash data base. | [/]Updating TeX links | update: This TeXLive installation is broken! | update: Only programs are found but no init file(s) at all. You might install | update: e.g. texlive-collection-latex or any other texlive-collection package. `---- So, I looked at my Texlive installation and texlive-collection-latex is installed. However, looking further I notice that the rpm is empty with no payload. I even download texlive-collection-latex-2021.184.svn57048-51.2.noarch.rpm from the OpenSUSE just to verify and indeed there is no payload. Can some one please shed some light for this issue. Thanks. Charles
On 11/05/2021 06.31, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
I looked at my Texlive installation and texlive-collection-latex is installed. However, looking further I notice that the rpm is empty with no payload.
Can some one please shed some light for this issue.
It is a pattern/meta package that just pulls in others. E.g. on 15.2 I see rpm -q --requires texlive-collection-latex texlive-ae >= 2017 texlive-amscls >= 2017 texlive-amsmath >= 2017 texlive-babel >= 2017 texlive-babel-english >= 2017 texlive-babelbib >= 2017 texlive-carlisle >= 2017 texlive-collection-basic >= 2017 texlive-colortbl >= 2017 texlive-fancyhdr >= 2017 texlive-fix2col >= 2017 texlive-geometry >= 2017 texlive-graphics >= 2017 texlive-graphics-cfg >= 2017 texlive-hyperref >= 2017 texlive-latex >= 2017 texlive-latex-bin >= 2017 texlive-latex-fonts >= 2017 texlive-latexconfig >= 2017 texlive-ltxmisc >= 2017 texlive-mfnfss >= 2017 texlive-mptopdf >= 2017 texlive-natbib >= 2017 texlive-oberdiek >= 2017 texlive-pslatex >= 2017 texlive-psnfss >= 2017 texlive-pspicture >= 2017 texlive-tools >= 2017 texlive-url >= 2017 many patterns also pull in packages as recommends, which you might miss if you normally don't install recommended packages (e.g. when starting with a JeOS image)
"Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bernhardout@lsmod.de> writes: Hello Bernhard,
On 11/05/2021 06.31, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
I looked at my Texlive installation and texlive-collection-latex is installed. However, looking further I notice that the rpm is empty with no payload.
Can some one please shed some light for this issue.
It is a pattern/meta package that just pulls in others. ...
Thanks for the info. However, I do have these packages installed, but it still displaying the installation is broken. Haven't used TeX for a while, it was working perfectly before. All I ever did was zypper dup without changing any of the config. Thanks. Charles
On Tuesday, May 11, 2021 1:35:11 AM CDT Charles Philip Chan wrote:
"Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bernhardout@lsmod.de> writes:
Hello Bernhard,
On 11/05/2021 06.31, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
I looked at my Texlive installation and texlive-collection-latex is installed. However, looking further I notice that the rpm is empty with no payload.
Can some one please shed some light for this issue.
It is a pattern/meta package that just pulls in others. ...
Thanks for the info. However, I do have these packages installed, but it still displaying the installation is broken. Haven't used TeX for a while, it was working perfectly before. All I ever did was zypper dup without changing any of the config.
Thanks.
Charles
For me, there was an update in the last week that generated a mail entry for root (/var/mail/root) which had instructions for dealing with the .rpmnew file that got created during the update. Though to be honest, I haven't used any of my latex installation for a couple of months. Mark
Mark Petersen <mark.petersen@markofall.com> writes: Hello Mark,
For me, there was an update in the last week that generated a mail entry for root (/var/mail/root) which had instructions for dealing with the .rpmnew file that got created during the update. Though to be honest, I haven't used any of my latex installation for a couple of months.
Yes, the /etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf file. This is how I found out that my Texlive is broken. Anyway, I got it working again after a lot of trial and error. I had to: (1) Regenerate all the ls-R databases. (2) Run "fmtutil-sys --all" to regenerate all the TeX format files to the current version. (3) and finally run "/usr/share/texmf/texconfig/update force" Thank you for your reply though. Charles
"CPC" == Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@bell.net> writes:
CPC> Mark Petersen <mark.petersen@markofall.com> writes: Hello Mark,
For me, there was an update in the last week that generated a mail entry for root (/var/mail/root) which had instructions for dealing with the .rpmnew file that got created during the update. Though to be honest, I haven't used any of my latex installation for a couple of months.
CPC> Yes, the /etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf file. This is how I found out that CPC> my Texlive is broken. CPC> Anyway, I got it working again after a lot of trial and error. I had to: CPC> (1) Regenerate all the ls-R databases. CPC> (2) Run "fmtutil-sys --all" to regenerate all the TeX format CPC> files to the current version. CPC> (3) and finally run "/usr/share/texmf/texconfig/update force" Thanks for the solution as I was fighting with it also. Why on the earth it was .rpmsave which broke the whole thing rather than the usual .rpmnew is a different question
Togan Muftuoglu <toganm@dinamizm.com> writes: Hi Togan,
Thanks for the solution as I was fighting with it also.
I hope it worked for you too.
Why on the earth it was .rpmsave which broke the whole thing rather than the usual .rpmnew is a different question
Don't know. All I know is that all the ls-R files got zeroed out, with the exception of the mandatory header: ,---- | % ls-R -- filename database for kpathsea; do not change this line. `---- which led to kpathsea not being able to find anything. Cheers, Charles
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